I´ll bet that you have never heard about this 1996 speech by Bill Wood, a close friend of Bill Kaysing:

http://www.hawken.edu/ptra/archive/msg01616.html

The speech was posted in a forum on February 15, 2002, by fellow debunker Carol Balfe.

She does not mention exactly from where she has the transcript of Bill Wood´s speech, but these are her own comments:

"Hi Steve and others,

I found the doc that I was given citing some of the "Moon Hoax"
ideas. Since it seems to be floating out there so prevalently, you may as
well see some of the arguments -- all of the "conspiracy theory" variety --
Pseudo science is alive and well!! I think it can be an opportunity to
help students examine ideas like these critically!!

Anyway -- here's the text -- that contains a reference to a book about all
this stuff. The author claims to have been an engineer and therefore "in
the know."

And then follows a HUUUUGE transcript of HB Bill Wood´s speech.

These are but a few quotes from this speech:

"William (Bill) Wood presented this speech to an audience of 90 people in
San Jose, California in 1996.

**The title of my talk today is “Did we ever go to the Moon?”

*About half of what I’m presenting today is extracted from Bill Kaysing’s
book, We Never Went to The Moon, which I highly recommend. Anyone who is
interested can obtain one from him for $20, including shipping. See me
afterwards for the address. The rest of what I’m presenting today comes
from my own 30-year investigation."

And ..

"**In the Apollo photographs there are no stars in the lunar sky. No crater
was produced by the rocket exhaust under the LEM. Recent tests with the
DC-X rocket, landing tail first on Earth, produced a large, 2’ deep crater
and significant damage to the vehicle. The crater was so large that there
was concern that the DC-X might fall over, into it. On the Moon the crater
would have been much larger, due to the Moon having only 1/6 as much
gravity as the Earth and no atmosphere. In the Apollo landings, there was
no Moon dust on the landing pads in spite of the fact that Armstrong talked
about all the dust he was kicking up. In photos, Moon dirt is clearly
defined out to a certain distance, then there is an abrupt transition to a
fuzzy enlarged photo of lava flows in Hawaii and Utah used for
background. Prior to Apollo, top geologists were asked what they expected
lunar soil to be like. Afterward, they were provided with just what they
expected: nothing not found on Earth."

Lava flows in Hawaii and UTAH, eh ? Oh, Jaaayy, any comments on these lava flows in Utah ? [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

"**As in the 1974 movie Capricorn I, Apollo missions took off with no
astronauts aboard and went into orbit. Then the 3rd stage took an unmanned
spacecraft to the Moon, where it performed a lunar landing, lowered a
seismometer, ejected a laser reflector, transmitted back prerecorded manned
audio and video, then dug up Moon rocks and returned them to Earth. Later,
the crew in a burned capsule were dropped from a C-5a aircraft into the
Pacific for recovery. Some of the real Moon rocks were then traded with
the Russians for real Moon rocks they has just obtained with their own
unmanned lunar lander and return craft. Larger amounts of phony Moon rocks
were manufactured on Earth and sent to laboratories for analysis and put on
public display."

Jay, I would absolutely love if you would dissect the cadaver at:

http://www.hawken.edu/ptra/archive/msg01616.html




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